May 2, 2011
With some rough indications that intelligence from Guantanamo and the associated network of extra-legal prisons contributed to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, our nation is once again faced with… READ MORE
January 19, 2011
The Huffington Post runs a piece by erin Khue Ninh, author of the forthcoming book “Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature”, who argues that immigrant parents will still… READ MORE
January 5, 2011
Join NYU Press for two parties (i.e. free food & booze) at the Modern Language Association‘s annual meeting in Los Angelese this week. Friday, from 4-5pm, in the American Literatures… READ MORE
May 26, 2010
Although books are said to be born at the moment of publication, the early stages of conceptualization and writing are excellent opportunities to introduce key themes from your larger work…. READ MORE
April 23, 2010
My grandmother, Jean Gosse, wrote poems that reflected daily life and concerns in mid-20th century Newfoundland. At the time “The Little Boy who didn’t pass” was written (the early 1950s),… READ MORE
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has… READ MORE
April 22, 2010
HOW TO GET THERE by Shessu Foster HOW TO GET THERE: downhill from the jail where deputies in training formation, stragglers staggering up past the school where we played football… READ MORE
The Day Lady Died by Frank O’Hara It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine… READ MORE